The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1887-08-18
Malone s Six Years in the Senate

Malone 8 Six Years in the Senate,
Gen1 Malone has just issued over his
own signature 4 pamphlet giving the
record of the Democratic Senators and
Representatives of Virginia, in compare
son with his own record, in which he de-
duces the conclusion thai ne has, in six
years, measured by bills introduced and
passed, accomplished more for the State
than all the Democrats from Virginia to-
gether in the Senate and House, since the
restoration OF the State to the Union. y
After declaring the necessity for the ex-
istence OF two parties, and deprecating
the unworthy prejudiceS that have been
engendered against the Republican party
in the South, he says Appeals to these
preiudices have been the unmanly resort
of lfseeking partizans, who pretend that
to be a Republican is to do wrong and in
Justice to the Confederate soldier. and
none declaim against this wrong more
vehemently than he who never suffered a
hardship, and who silulked every peril
which the civil war imposed AS in
stances OF CODfederateS who have been
pursued with indignity by this class of
Democrats he names Col Mosby. Col
LYmb and many Others. This part of his
address he concludes as follows: 'If a sen.
timental Democrat cannot understand how
Confederate can be d Republican, what
sort of reasoning brings him to understand
how Union soldier can be IL Democrat?
If there is treason in the one case, what
else is it in the o,her 2" The Democrats
of Virginia have changed their shibboleth
OF the white man against the negro and
by their later policy are now caresslng the
cOlored voter and enticing him into their
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under government. State and Federal.
Having in the election of last year carried
but one of the twenty three counties
whose population is three-fourths white,
their claim of being the white man S party
OF Virginia has ended. He charges that
they are now passing by the hard working
Democrat OF the ranks and cajoling and
invoking the fellowship OF the negro. The
labOrlng white man for such places as the
leaders do not desire. and the colored
brother must accept such recognition as
an earnest of tender regard for him bv the
Democratic party. When elected to the
Senate the Readjuster party had crystal
lied around certain domestic questions.
such as the State debt. free schools and
the liberation OF the ballot, but had taken
no distinctive stand between the national
parties. He found himself compelled,
however, to select between the two, and
believing in the Republican policy of free
dom for the human race, the political
equality of the citizens, the unhindered
exercise of the ballot, the education of the
masses, the improvement OF the rivers and
harbOrs, and the protection OF American
productions and American labor, he joined
the party whose policy he believed would
revive the dropping prosperity and tagging
energies of his State.
Having allied himself with the Republi-
can party, he sought earnestly to promote
the interests of the people Of Virginia. The
result of his work he summarized as fol-
lows: After a full examination of the
whole record Of my Democratic predeces-
sors in the Senate, and of all the Demo
cratic Representatives i'll the House COM
bined, l deliantly assert that have in six
years accomplished more for the State and
people of Virginia that all the Democrats
together since the State was restored to
the Union; that measured by the num-
Der ard value of bills relating to Virginia,
introduced and passed, have accomplish |
ed in six years more for the State and her
people than all the Democrats from Vir |
ginia together in the Senate and House. "
He claims that the Democrats secured but |
two public buildings, at Danyille and |
Lynchburg, the aggregate appropriation |
1Of WHICH was spzlU,5UU, WnllSG lie secured |
the appropriation for the buildings at Har- |
risolburg and Abingdon, ana for additions |
at Richmond and Lynchburg, aggregating |
1919 SEQ. Besides there were numerous |
other appropriations, which, together with |
that above. make up the sum of $500. 500 |
actually obtained, and $S35,000 which |
passed the Senate and died in the House,
making 81 ,344 500 against $210, 900, the |
sum total obtained by all his Democratic |
predecessors III the Senate and House
Johnson for thirteen, Withers for six, Ca
bell and Tucker for twelve each and Dan
lei and O'Ferrall for two years each. Be
sides this, he says, it was on his motion
that the tobacco tax was reduced from
sixteen to eight cents. and iron ores ad-
vanced to their existing rate. He was an
earnest advocate of the French spoilation
claims, and labOred earnestly to have the
appropriation for their payment made.
In an appendix to the pamphlet he gives
the record of the work done by the two
last Democratic Senators and the Demo
c1atic. members OF the 49th congress. That
work is summarized as follows:
Hon. Jno. w. Johnston during his ser
vice OF 10 years IN the Senate. introduced
~ Dllls, OF which only 10 passed that body,
ana OF the 10 only related to Virginia or
her cltlZens.
Hon. II. r. W1thers during his SIX years
service IN the Senate introduced 6O bills, OF
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